Amarra 3.011/27/2022 Now at version 3.0 (US$99), thousands of users worldwide apply Amarra’s audio processing to their iTunes libraries whilst others use Amarra as a standalone player. Newport Show 2015Īnd also like PureMusic, Sonic Studio’s marketing promises are far from empty. If you can play it or stream it, Amarra SQ and SQ+ can allegedly make it sound a whole lot better. Amarra 3.0 software#The sales pitch from West Coasting Sonic Studio’s for their SQ and SQ+ software solutions echoes that of East Coaster Rob Robinson’s Streamthrough: that the sound quality of Tidal and Qobuz, as well as lossy services like Pandora and Spotify, can be improved by re-routing the native app’s audio output through an in-house-coded processing ‘engine’. Unable to progress any further with my investigation, I put it to bed. And yet 6moons’ Srajan Ebaen reported zero problems with Streamthrough + Qobuz on his iMac. The reader comments brought forward first hand accounts of other users experiencing the same ‘crackling’ issue. It wasn’t just me that would bear witness to snap, crackle and pop. Both ran OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion and even following Pure Music developer Rob Robinson’s advice to roll back the MacMini to Snow Leopard, the ‘crackling’ issue persisted. A reboot would fix the issue…but only temporarily.īack then, I could be found rocking a 2010 MacMini and a 2011 MacBook Air. Last June I took Spotify and Qobuz on a diversion via PureMusic’s Streamthrough (formerly PlayThrough) but ended up at an impasse: distortion that approximated the sound of a ‘crackling fire’ would almost always ruin the party. Not the porcine kind but the audible distortion that plagued this reviewer’s first foray into streaming audio quality amelioration on a Mac.
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